[SpamCop-List] Re: OT, but ...

[Ant]

"Mike Easter" wrote:

> John Richards wrote:
>> What I do: set auto line wrap to 132. Then when I compose
>> a new message I manually hit Enter at about character 72
>> on every line I type.
>
> Eek!

It's also what I do - in a text editor which tells me the line length.
It's the only way with OE, apart from QF which has its drawbacks, to
be sure that what you see is what ends up on the server.

>> The advantage of this is that it does not
>> mess up (i.e., cause ugly shortlines) of quoted text having a
>> line length greater than 72.
>
> Your 'system' is the same result as would occur if you simply set your
> linewraps to 72 and used no returns during par/s.

Not at all. It will still break quoted lines if they are longer than
the length you've set.